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Died. Paul Jung, 65, one of the most creative circus clowns in the business, who in 31 years as a performer-producer with Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey originated many of its now standard routines, notably the burning house which explodes a midget high into the air while 30 other clowns fool around with two fire engines; of head wounds suffered in an unsolved murder; in his hotel room, half a block from Manhattan's Madison Square Garden...
...better than anyone else's. She is young, beautiful, a treasure coveted by his doctor, his lawyer, his gardener, and that antique dealer who -but, of course! Now he begins to see, or thinks he sees, the guile in her innocence. He starts checking the mileage of her midget car, monitors her phone calls, has her followed, even fakes a business trip and sneaks back home with blanket, thermos, flashlight and binoculars to reconnoiter his own patio. The evening ends disastrously, and the movie ends as a slick burlesque that contains an agreeable amoral lesson: the fool who stalks...
...swinging bachelor who drives around in a Lincoln Continental convertible, which he insists is not maroon in color but "black cherry." The car has a telephone and a monaural tape machine; it will soon have two telephones, a TV set, a stereo tape recorder, an icemaking midget refrigerator and a walnut-paneled bar. He is a wine lover and a gourmet...
Roustabout. Step right up, folks. It's a carnival, and here come the freaks. Way down there is the midget, way up there is "the tallest man in the world." Behind that bush stands the bearded lady and over in the cutlery department the sword-swallower is just about to show his guts. But say, what's that whatsit wriggling down the midway: that long damp thing with the pale-green skin and the pollywog eyes and the squirmy little mouth...
...Cliffe confirmed their fears when she remarked last night after the meeting, "Another fast? Who's sponsoring this one, the Midget Restaurant...